Sort albums in recorded order?

This is one thing that annoys me and hopefully there's a solution. Perhaps a script?
Some albums (say Dark Side of the Moon for instance) MUST be played in the order that was on the album/tape/CD, whatever. I have a huge library and would love to be able to sort the albums I have in the order they SHOULD be. I already spend waaaay too much time sorting my library and making sure everything is perfect but, I can only get so anal about it.
Is there possibly a script that could sort albums into the order that the artists recorded them in? I'm thinking something that could search Amazon for albums, see the order of the songs and sort accordingly. Nice thought eh? I realize the odds of this being around are about nil but, is there any progress on something like this or a place to look? Doug's Scripts doesn't have anything that I can see along these lines.

On some tunes, yes. On others, no. Some have track
numbers in correct order. Some have no track numbers.
Aha. If you have albums without track numbers, well of course iTunes won't play them in the correct order — it doesn't know what the correct order is! Every album track needs to have the "Track Number X of Y" fields filled out; otherwise, iTunes has no way of ordering the tracks within an album.
These fields should be filled in automatically when iTunes rips your CDs, since all of the track numbers are available from the CDDB. If they're not, then, yes, you'll need to edit them by hand. (I can say for sure that "Dark Side of the Moon" is in the CDDB, though, so re-importing the CD while you're connected to the internet should get you your track numbers.)

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I used to have all my iPhoto '09 albums organized in chronological order, I just added a new one to the bottom every month or so.
Unfortunately, I did something and now they're all in alphabetical order:
April 2008
April 2009
August 2008
August 2009
You get the idea.
How can I re-sort them into chronological order?

do it manually
or
rename them so the alpha sort works
2009-08-31
2009-08-21
2009-07-04
etc
There is no date sort - on alpha and it can not be undone
Suggest to Apple -- iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
LN

Sorting Albums in alphabetic order on iPad

I set up a set of Albums in iPhotos on my iMac. Later I added a new album and it went to the bottom of the list of albums on the left side of screen. I physically dragged that last album up among the other albums to put it in alpha order. All well and good.
Problem is when I sync my iPad, that last album doses not appear in alpha order
; it stays at bottom of group.
Please help me put this and future albums in alpha order. Thanks

My iPad 2 and iPhone 4 are on iOS 6.0.1 (was on iTunes 10.7, recently updated to 11) and most of my smart lists are sorted as in iTunes. The ones that don't seem to be sorted correctly are those which are limited in size by number of songs (e.g. "Limit to 25 songs"). Playlists that are limited by capacity (e.g. "Limit to 500 MB") seem to have the same sort order as in iTunes.
I'm not sure if this matches your conditions, but if you have not done so already then try adding either of the criteria:
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Sort 'albums' to date order

I recently upgraded to OS Yosemite X and my photos transferred from iPhotos to Photos. Frankly, Photos is a mess and not user friendly.
My problem is that my hundreds of 'iPhoto events' appeared in an 'iPhoto Events' folder within 'Photos albums'. I selected them all and then converted them all into separate 'albums'. Unfortunately, they are now all mixed up out of date order and there doesn't appear to be any way you can put them in correct date order. I then did an 'undo' to put they all back into the 'iPhoto events' folder and they are in the same mixed up state.
Please can anyone advise me how to get them back into date order?

I agree. Have experienced exactly the same. I have spent hours manually sorting Albums into order - why is there no option to sort by date? Asked in Apple Store and they could not answer. Hopefully Apple will fix this soon.
Also found that when photos are in Albums there is no way of editing - can only be done in Photos.
Can't merge Albums either.
Can't save emailed photos to Photo either - there's an option to do that but it does't appear to work - I don't know where it's sent.
It's a not at all user friendly. Photos are sorted how Apple think you want to see them i.e. en masse and in date order on Photos - I DON'T WANT THAT.
It wasn't made clear on the update to Yosemite that such a drastic change would happen - I wish I hadn't updated.

How can I make a smart playlist sort album by artist in order of size?

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a playlist of songs I generally like from a very large library to fit on my iPod. The songs aren't rated, and I don't want to have a totally random selection chosen by a smart playlist.
I thought a good way to pare down the list would be to sort album by artist, and then filter that list in order of the size that each artist takes up. It's more important to get rid of an artist that I don't like that also hogs a lot of space than one that maybe only has one track. I figure if I could scan down the list and exclude the worst offenders, it conceivably would make the task much simpler.

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a playlist of songs I generally like from a very large library to fit on my iPod. The songs aren't rated, and I don't want to have a totally random selection chosen by a smart playlist.
I usually make two playlists.
One playlist with favorites I do want on the iPod and another smart playlist to fill the rest of the iPod. Just limit the size to th esize of the iPod minus wthe size of my iPod selection playlist.

How do you sort photo albums in date order instead of alphabetic order?

My photo albums used to be date sorted but after selecting Sort albums, they are now in alphabetic order. How do I undo that, please?

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Dear Grumpy
this is strictly a user to user forum and is specifically NOT a place to contact Apple - griping at the volenteer users here does no one any good at all
Have you made the request - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback?
LN
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I am sorry that I ran afoul of the user guidelines, I'll remove the rant if I can. I certainly did not intend my gripe to target the helpful responder. And yes, I did provide the feedback to Apple. I'm just used to such feedback going into a "black hole". Which this almost certainly does because this problem has existed for years (I Googled for an answer first.) However, it should be noted that company's tend to respond to feedback that is very public if they want to keep a good name in the business. The private feedback through the program is like a quiet whisper, only the two parties involved know about it, so there is no real incentive for prompt action.
DLC

How can I sort albums by album artist while keeping compilations together?

Argh, I'm getting a bit exasperated. Basically I just want to be able to scroll through cover flow and see all my albums with one cover representing each album, with all the compilations near the end under "V" for various. Surely most people would want to scroll through their albums in this way??
So I've gone through and added all the album artist info, which has worked fine for the artist albums. But for all the "Various" ones, instead of doing the logical thing and grouping them together by album, iTunes orders these all by track artist. There doesn't seem to be any secondary sort function..
I'm always defending Mac and Apple products for their logical applications and ease of use, and now I feel let down.. If there's a way around this please let me know! Thanks,
Malinna

The trouble you're encountering is that iTunes sorts first by Album Artist, then by Artist. Thus, within each Album Artist, you'll get multiple Artist clumps.
You want to sort "Album by Artist". This will, first, strip out all your compilations and sort them to the end of your library, then sort using the hierarchy Album Artist (or Artist if there is none) > Album > Disc # > Track #. Click the Album column header until Album by Artist is displayed. (You can also choose Album by Year, which will sort albums chronologically within Album Artist.)
If you want to keep albums together, you'll need to sort on an Album column; other columns are bound to clump things by whatever you're sorting on.

Creative ZEN, Albums fused, does not sort albums correctly!

;Creative ZEN, Albums fused, does not sort albums correctly! http://nl.creative.com/products/prod...t=6999&listby=
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I safely remove my ZEN player from my computer,.
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Albums fused together, albums scattered true each other, MOST albums got different names then in windows XP!
I get really frustrated from this! how can i make this right!
I want the ZEN to show the albums like in WINDOWS XP! how hard can this be!!!
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Hi,
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Sort Albums Doesn't Work

I have a bunch of albums in iPhoto that I am trying to sort, and it just doesn't work.
When I select them, right-click, and choose "Sort Albums" from the context menu, either *nothing* happens, or else the order of the albums is altered in some seemingly random way but the results are not alphabetical order.
I don't see how the program could somehow not understand "alphabetical" so there must be something keeping it from actually doing the sort. Anybody have any clues?

When there is a selection, if "Sort Albums" will do nothing then the option should be greyed out. Otherwise, it should sort those items which are selected. Doing nothing and giving the user no feedback is not acceptible.
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You may want to send feedback to Apple - use the form: Apple - Aperture - Feedback

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I have my iTunes library set to display artists in alphabetical order and albums in chronological order. This is the sorting option preferred by every person I've ever spoken to about it. The touble is nobody I've ever spoken to can tell me how to get my device (4S64, 5.1.1) to follow suit. iTunes on my phone insists on listing albums alphabetically. Since I (we) already know all the letters of the alphabet and in which order they occur this kind of sorting is of no benefit. Somebody please put me (us) out of our misery and reveal whichever secret soft switch must be flipped to make this happen. Also, if possible, I would rather do the alphabetical "Artist" sorting by last name rather than first but I have not seen an option for that either.
Thank you in advance.

There is no secret soft switch for Album by Artist by Year on iOS.
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I'm having an issue where I can't get the artists albums in chronological order. I have all the artist in alphabetical order but now I want their albums in year order. It looks like the albums are in alphabetical order. To give you an example...AC/DC is first...Back in Black (1980) is before High Voltage (1976). I know it probably sounds petty but it drives me crazy that its not in the correct order! lol... I did a search and couldn't find my answer thats why I'm posting. Thanks in advance.

Anders Dahl wrote:
What if an artist releases two albums in the same year.
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Having spent a lot of time over the years getting the metadata in my iTunes library just right, I've noticed a frustrating problem when it comes to iTunes Match.
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I have a lot of different albums which appear in the order in which they were created. I am happy to keep my photos in date order, but would prefer the albums to be alphabetically listed. Is there a way of doing this. Also can I file albums within folders to make things easier? Many thanks

1 - no it won't but of course you have a backup so if anything goes wrong you can go back to just before it happened
2 - sorting albums does just that - sorts albums - it does nothing to photos or to events ore anything else
LN

Albums in alphabetical order

is it possible to organize the mobileme albums in alphabetical order in iPhoto?

No, not automatically. You an move them manually and then republish and that should rearrange the order online.
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Albums in chronological order?

Is there any way to get your albums in iTunes to go in chronological order instead of alphabetical (and also to get my iPod to sync this way?) Right now I have the album tags set so that it has the year before the album name (ie
"{2003} Interventions And Lullabies" and "{2006} Dog Problems") and it really is getting on my nerves. Any way I can fix this? Thanks

It won't sync that way... I too thought of retagging all my albums, or using sort fields, but I still want them to come up in alphabetical order when I choose Album on my iPod.
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Anyone hear anything to do this?

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